From the wykebeck to the bottom of Halton Moor then the beck is piped up at Halton Moor road where the Auctions are, this is why the Dunhill's floods and the fields at Halton Moor the beck ends up at a funnel point. Now they was a court case some years ago where a man took Yorkshire water to court saying he dose not get his water from the tap he gets it from the sky so docent think he should pay water rates. the Judge said yorkshire water owns the water from the sky. so when it floods why can't you get compensation from yorkshire water who own and control the water

Because Yorkshire Water don't own and control the water, including the rain from the sky. You pay rates if you're connected to the water supply, even if you choose not to use it, in which case get a meter. YW is responsible for flooding due to blocked or overloaded sewers. YW is not responsible for flooding from watercourse, becks, rivers or the sea. They are not owned, managed or maintained by Yorkshire Water.

1775A very high flood occurred in the river Aireon the 21st of October, this year. "Water-lane, togetherwith all the other streets and lanes near the Leeds Bridge,were rendered impassable to anything but boats. Thebridges of Calverley and Swillington, above and belowLeeds, were destroyed, and a singular circumstance isrelated of a hare, which escaped alive on the body of adrowned sheep. The height to which the water rose ispreserved by a notice at the end of Water-lane, enteringfrom the bridge, thus :—".1775, October 21st, "Flood"under which is a line showing that the water rose sevenfeet above the crown of the paving

1795 On the 9th of February, the river Aire,which had been frozen for a considerable time? exhibited amost appalling scene occasioned by a rapid thaw andheavy rain, which "broke up the ice and swelled the riverso as to inundate all the lower streets in Leeds, whereincalculable mischief was done by the foaming torrent andthe immense blocks of floating ice, which carried awaycloth and tenters from the fields, threw down walls, dyehouses,and several dwelling-houses, and greatly injuredthe bridge, across one of the arches of which, a boat wasforced on its broad side, and at length broken to pieces by& vast accumulation of ice and water, which, if the vesselhad not given way, would have soon overthrown thebridge itself, as was feared by the anxious spectators ofthis destructive flood, which drowned three men in HunsletDam, and floated down the river, horses, carts, timber,furniture, in rapid succession